Light in August | C. Hugh Holman
In the following excerpt, Holman proposes that unity is manifest in Faulkner's novel through the "paralleling of character traits" and "actions" of Joe Christmas and Christ.
C. Hugh Holman
In the following excerpt, Holman proposes that unity is manifest in Faulkner's novel through the "paralleling of character traits" and "actions" of Joe Christmas and Christ.
The nature of the unity in William Faulkner's Light in August, in fact, even the existence of such unity, has been seriously disputed by his critics. The debate has ranged from Malcolm Cowley's insistence that the work combines "two or more themes having little relation to each other" to Richard Chase's elaborate theory of "images of the curve" opposed to "images of...
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